Well, Arsene Wenger may have to start acting a lot faster than he thought between now and September 2.

Injuries are piling up already at the Emirates, he may now have to act fast to try and grab his transfer window targets.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Mikel Arteta are both out injured and all of a sudden, Arsenal are short of midfield options. Hence the sudden influx of bids being tabled by Wenger and the Gunners early this week.

Oxlade-Chamberlain, 20, will be out until November with a posterior cruciate ligament injury, while Arteta will miss at least a month due to a thigh injury. These untimely absences are further magnifying the issues Wenger is having in player recruitment, while Arsenal also let 17 players leave over the summer with their squad now looking threadbare at best.

While Wenger certainly got plenty off his chest during a press conference yesterday. Arsenal’s under-pressure manager defended his clubs tactics in this summer’s transfer window, slamming the negative commits from pundits, other Premier League managers and everyone else in between.

The proud Frenchman, in his seventeenth season in charge of Arsenal, is standing firm on the clubs transfer policy following his sides surprise opening day Premier League home defeat to Aston Villa. As Steve Davis wrote yesterday, Wenger hit out at critics who’ve demanded more signings in North London.

I would just like to reiterate to you that in the last 16 years we have been very successful with transfers. If you look at the players we have, they are top quality and you should never forget that. It is not always to think what is outside is better than what you have. What is important as well is to rate what you have and our fans have to understand that as well. It’s hard but I can understand the impatience.

Wenger sympathized with the Arsenal fans, but insisted he’s doing what’s right for the club. And Wenger also stated his intends to bring in plenty of players between now and September 2.

But with the Champions League playoff round starting tonight against Fenerbache, is the 63-year-old Frenchman sweating on qualifying for Europe’s biggest club competition before he can spend big? Perhaps. But that’s a decision for the board of directors, however it’s a possibility.

Rumors continue to circle that the Gunners have bid for Paul Pogba, Wayne Rooney, Luis Suárez, Gareth Barry and Asmir Begovic, as well as Cabaye. Those moves may all hinge on beating Turkish giants Fenerbache, which is by no means a simple task, to qualify for the Champions League Group stages and grab a cash windfall.

Seems like there’s still quite a few stressful days left for Mr. Wenger between now and Monday September 2.